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The Scottish Play: Race and Nation in “Macbeth”

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

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Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Our Technological Fate

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United Kingdom

Our Technological Fate: George Grant and Pope Francis in Dialogue An in-person talk by Hallam Willis, Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute in the Aula at Blackfriars Hall. The event will also be available to follow online. To register for online attendance, please follow this link. The primary aim of this talk is to...

“English Seneca”: Vernacular Rhyme and Classical Style in Early Modern English Drama

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

Recurring

Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

The Culture of Encounter in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

Recurring

Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Elections, Elections: How Will the World Be Different at the end of 2024?

More than 50 countries have already gone, or are set to go, to the polls to elect leaders in 2024, representing a large percentage of the world’s population – a fact made more daunting by the reality that, in some nations, democracy is on the line. The implications for human rights, international relations, and economics...

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Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Cultural Encounters of Otherness through Shakespeare

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...